“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Unless I summon the self that I was at that time, the memories for details are not that clear. [...] We did not have as many guards at that time, but we had many stolen paintings and jewels of great merit. Now some of these jewels, as well as the money, went for expeditions that you do not realize were adopted at that time, having to do with commerce and ships sent through Africa, and this interest had to do with my later life when I was involved with the oregano. [...]

[...] Any such intervention would only occur on the part of a personality who was, for the present time, physical. [...] But he would exist historically in your time and not, for example, be a ghost whispering in the night. [...]

[...] And so that despite you and your concepts of value, creativity always emerges triumphant, and those that are killed in one war come back to fight against war the next time, and hopefully, you teach yourselves some lessons. [...] The mistakes in the long run, and in your terms, will not count, but they are very real to you at this time. [...]

[...] In one story or another, it has existed far back into the annals of your time. [...]

[...] This psychological-time experience of Jane’s also involved John Bradley.)

[...] The other point that I wanted to make was that while your physical time, or clock time, has no overall basic reality, and is not a primary reality, that runs through various fields or systems, it is nevertheless an electromagnetic reality within your own system, for you have created it on mental terms.

[...] If clock time is escaped within the dream state, then clock time is not a primary. [...]

He will be at all times a prisoner of clock time and of aging, for he will consider these the primary conditions under which he must operate. [...]

Give us time. [...] You are doing the same thing with his symptoms that he does with them, that so annoy you: prolonging them in time in your imagination, and you have less reason to do so.

[...] Now give us time. (Long pause at 10:25.) The two of you together can help break these procedures so that at least the both of you are not applying negative ideas at the same time. [...]

But the search for health should be concentrated upon—not the state of ill health at any time. [...]

There is a definite time period involved, and your own remark only shows that what I said earlier is correct. [...]

The woman has strongly resisted the hypnosis sessions, and has suffered relapses rather than suffer the intense psychic and psychological reorganization that would be necessary for any meaningful recovery.

[...] We will try to fill you in on times and dates and locations later.

[...] This time the personality is John’s wife, being cared for, you see, rather than caring for; being physically dependent. [...]

This time he plays that part and is completely immersed in it. [...]

[...] See especially the 567th session in Chapter 16: “Now the same sort of behavior occurs on a deep, basic, secret and unexplored psychological level.” Some of the probable systems arising out of such activity would be quite alien to us: “One such fluctuation might take several thousand of your years … [which] would be experienced, say, as a second of your time …” Jane elaborates upon related ideas from her own viewpoint in Chapter 10, among others, in her Adventures in Consciousness.

7. As an artist, my intuitive reaction to Seth’s remark that an atom can move in more than one direction at once was to associate that ability with his notions of simultaneous time and probabilities. [...] At the same time he realizes that from his artistic viewpoint he may not be able to understand the paradox of “contradictory” motions.

[...] It’s as though Seth’s going to have a hard time explaining them.”)

[...] In your reality, experience is dependent upon time, but all experience is not so structured. [...]

(Seth’s reference to Jane’s book idea, Aspect Psychology, touches on one of our other questions. [...] At this time we think it’s probably okay for her to work on Aspects, though.)

Give us time.... [...] Until recently you spoke to him against travel because you lost work time. He believed that you thought it a waste of time, so he did not believe his lack of physical mobility that way would hamper you.

The idea of cutting down stimuli and concentrating on work was quite agreeable to both of you for some time, far beyond the time you think it was. [...]

At the same time you encouraged him to success, but he felt only to a certain point, for the fruits of the success you might find disruptive. [...]

Now you are “around yourself” all of the time. [...]

[...] In larger terms, however, what you are is always vaster than your knowledge of yourself, for in physical life you cannot keep up with your own psychological and psychic activity.

[...] These result in certain time sequences that can be compared to sentences, written and read from one side, say, to the other.

[...] The psyche does not mark time. [...]

[...] Your Multidimensional Reality in the Now of Your Being” — Eight sessions dealing with the vast unknown origin of our species in a psychological past that by contrast makes evolutionary time look like yesterday.

I used that information of Seth’s many times while working with “Unknown” Reality. Even so, I learned that on such a long-term project it’s easy to lose that acute sense of what one really wants to do and show — but I also learned how to constantly renew my focus. This presented me with what seemed like an endless series of challenges, yet I discovered again and again that I enjoyed them: Each time I sat down to work, whether on the most routine short note or the most complicated appendix, I searched for that particular, personal sense of intense concentration on the matter at hand. And each time I achieved it I experienced once more that complete inner and outer, mental and physical, involvement in which time was often significantly negated. [...]

[...] Finally, the disparity between the time Seth-Jane had spent producing Volume 1 alone (around 45 hours), and my own commitment in ordinary time, became so great in my mind as to be almost overwhelming.

It seemed that each time I searched through all of those unpublished sessions (covering well over a decade) for just the right supplementary material, I found something new. More often than not, this made me redo my own notes in unanticipated ways — always a creative challenge that was most enjoyable, and yet, paradoxically, one that at times was very frustrating. [...]

[...] It uses time, but is not used by it. [...] It takes time to paint or write, but the great inspirations of painting and writing transcend time, and the feeling of freedom and exuberance can give you in a few hours creative inspirations that have nothing to do with the time involved.

[...] I kept the letter, finding it after it had been initially misplaced, feeling for some reason that Jane shouldn’t answer it at the time: I trusted my intuitions, then. [...] Jane mentioned the note at various times, wondering what had happened to it.

[...] You think of a work of art as composed, say, of a theme or overall design, of various techniques and personal idiosyncrasies; and yet works of art, while transcending time, are indelibly impressed by the times also. [...]

[...] It may not seem so, but only your ideas of time, and not time itself, relatively closes your mind to the idea of a book of your own. [...]

(9:41.) I have said that many times. [...]

[...] Your subjective life is now interpreted through the specialized state of consciousness that you call the waking one, in which you recognize as real only experience that falls within certain space and time coordinates. [...]

[...] I am taking it for granted that you understand that I am referring to the ‘mental attitude’ of animals and of the body consciousness, for they do possess their own mental attributes—psychological colorations—and above all, emotional ‘states.’”

The ego itself in many instances cannot experience directly certain intuitions and psychological experiences, but it can experience them insofar as it can be aware of them on an intellectual basis. [...]

We will deal also, as I mentioned previously, with the nature of space, time and distance as they appear in the dream environment. [...]

Here the ego cannot go, but it can benefit from the information that is given to it, and perhaps in time even a shadow of the ego may pass through that strange land, and feel in some small way at home.

[...] This period of time is leading you both away from black or white patterns of thought to some degree, so that you can consider the aspects of your lives, bothered less by absolutes. It is certainly time to look at your prerogatives, as I have stressed. [...]

[...] It’s the first time this year that the grass has all been cut at once. [...]

[...] The day had been beautiful if cool much of the time. [...]

[...] In fact, my back was bothering me considerably, whether the cause was physical, psychological, or both.

[...] The session and others dating from that time offers very good insights into Jane’s choice of actions over the years. [...] She’d been waiting impatiently for some time for you-know-who to put in an appearance.)

[...] In such ways, the species does handle psychological and psychic issues. [...]

[...] Be aware, however, of the sudden reassurances from Framework 2. (Also at Prentice)—The news program invitation (from ABC), which places you in a context, however small, of national interest—an invitation that you did not court; these, plus many excellent letters of late, should show you of course the beneficial aspects of your work that you can at times overlook (with irony). [...]

[...] That is, you can behave to some extent at such times with a creature-like sense of trust and spontaneity, and of loving openness of a kind that animals at their best often display. [...]

(The 220th session, containing Seth’s advice, was held while the car was in the garage the first time. [...] By then I had the idea that psychological attitudes could affect the car, and had recalled that once before Seth had dealt with the car and our attitudes while on our way to a Maine vacation in August 1964. [...]

[...] We are at all times flexible.

[...] But you put to excellent use the advice which I gave you, concerning the importance of psychological reactions.

[...] I did not realize I had run low on gas at the time, for the car started as we coasted down hill. [...]

[...] When Ruburt took his glasses off at times, the eyes tried automatically to adjust themselves (as today). There is no need for him to go without glasses for any specific amount of time. [...]

[...] As it was, we sat for the session, with a resolve to try to do better next time. [...]

(Yet several times today, again, Jane experienced brief period where she could read much better without her glasses than with them—quite phenomenal changes, in fact.)

[...] We’ve been aware for some time of her ease in sitting and getting up; the garage steps phenomenon is a more recent one; she negotiated those much more easily today.)

In a way, one remembered dream can be compared to a psychological photograph, one picture that is not physically materialized, not frozen motion, not framed by either space or time; therefore many of those ingredients appear that are necessarily left out of any given moment of waking conscious activity.

[...] There are many kinds or varieties of dreams, some more and some less faithful to your memories of them — but as you remember a dream you automatically snatch certain portions of subjective events away from others, and try to “frame” these in space and time in ways that will make sense to your usual orientation. [...] A photograph will show certain events natural to the time in which it was taken. It will not show, for example, a picture of a Turk at the time of the Crusades. [...]

In usual circumstances you may remember the emotions that you felt at the time a picture of yourself was taken, and to some extent those emotions may show themselves in gestures or facial expression. [...] Because you must manipulate within specific time periods, you do the same kind of thing in daily life, and on a conscious level ignore or exclude much information that is otherwise available.

[...] It should be obvious that there you can leap from time to time.

[...] Psychological time simply allows you to let go, to relax. [...]

Now, there is one very cozy answer that is quite handy at times and it neatly relieves you of all sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] At other times my style was rather different but when my hair was worn somewhat in the style of yours, then I wore more sporty attire to go along with it. [...]

[...] In your terms, the quicker you learn the better, this despite the fact that time does not exist. [...]

(Today Jane had been reading Experimental Psychology, by C.G. Jung, first American edition, published by Jung’s heirs in 1968, etc.)

[...] They will be together, I believe, and you should add them to your people series; for one you have known before, and the other influenced your life at one time, though you did not know him personally. [...]

[...] I thought it odd at the time; but since we usually go out on Saturday evening anyhow, the thought of dropping in at the projected party did not unduly disturb.

[...] (Pause.) It is the fear that the unconscious, so-called, is chaotic, that causes psychologists to make such statements, and there (pause) is also something in the nature of those who practice psychology, a fascination, in many cases, already predisposed to fear the so-called unconscious in direct proportion to its attraction for them.

Now: In explanation, I do not know exactly how to word this, but in a manner of speaking I take tours — through psychological realities, however, or through psychic lands rather than physical ones. Such journeys “take no time” in your terms. [...]

[...] But if I don’t have a session tonight, then in the next one I’ll want to know why it didn’t happen this time. [...]

[...] While our meetings take place in your time, and in the physical space of your house, say, the primary encounter must be a subjective inner one, an intersection of consciousnesses that is then physically experienced.

[...] In this session, in the words I speak — but more importantly in the atmosphere of the session — there are hints of those undecipherable yet powerful realities that will then, in your time, gradually be described in verbal terms that make sense to you.

[...] Danger signals only too apparently showed with you as soon as you accepted full-time work. [...] The part-time course filled some of those other mentioned subsidiary needs however, so this you found more bearable.

You, personally, have been gravely perturbed because of your job for some time. [...]

When you begin devoting your time to your painting you will be satisfying then a deep need of your being, and therefore energized. [...]

[...] You felt this psychologically; do you follow me?